Mountain cold-trapping increases transfer of persistent organic pollutants from atmosphere to cows' milk

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 9175-9181

  Shunthirasingham, Chubashini ^a   Wania, Frank ^a   Macleod, Matthew ^b   Lei, Ying Duan ^a   Quinn, Cristina L ^a   Zhang, Xianming ^a   Scheringer, Martin ^b   Wegmann, Fabio ^b   Hungerbühler, Konrad ^b   Ivemeyer, Silvia ^c   Heil, Fritz ^c   Klocke, Peter ^c   Pacepavicius, Grazina ^d   Alaee, Mehran ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE FIBL   (Switzerland)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONCENTRATIONS; ELEVATIONAL GRADIENTS; ENDOSULFAN SULFATE; GAS-PHASE DEPOSITION; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANES; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT (POP); SOIL CONCENTRATIONS;

DEPOSITION; LAKE POLLUTION; LANDFORMS; SNOW; SOILS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ENDOSULFAN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; HEXACHLOROCYCLOHEXANE; MILK FAT; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOLIAGE; GRAZING; LIPID; MILK; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PASTURE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOIL POLLUTION;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; COLD; FOLIAGE; GAS; GRAZING; LOW TEMPERATURE; MILK; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PASTURE; POLLUTANT; SUMMER; SWITZERLAND;

SWITZERLAND;

AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COLD TEMPERATURE; MILK; SOIL;

EID: 84882620860     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400851d     Document Type: Article

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